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PART ONE: COURSE INTRO. BIO. Patrick

--Intro to course.

We begin this course on October 9, 2002. 157 years ago--October 9, 1845--John Henry Newman became a Roman Catholic. In a few days from now Rowan Williams, a formidable Welsh scholar of Newman, will become Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.

Newman’s truly popular impact is limited: mainly among English-speaking Anglicans, Episcopalians and Roman Catholics. Even there he should be far better known than he is. Persuading more generalists to want to read Newman and empowering them to read both his works and the academic literature about him is the goal of this introductory course.

Academicians love Newman. They write about him in learned monographs meant mainly for other academicians. Increasingly, however, some are also making John Henry Newman more accessible to amateurs like you and me. In this class of works fall

--Alan G. Hill’s 1986 edition with introduction of Newman’s 1848 novel LOSS AND GAIN: THE STORY OF A CONVERT and Hill’s year 2000 edition with introduction of CALLISTA: A TALE OF THE THIRD CENTURY;
--Archbishop Roman Williams 1991 edition of Newman’s first book, THE ARIANS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY; and
--a perfect model of “top-down” popularizing, Yale History Professor Frank Turner’s 1996 edition of THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY. This abounds in study aids and has six essays applying Newman to today.

These and many other writers Mary and I had to discover for ourselves during ten months of intensive reading and discussion. When we opened Newman’s APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA last December in Canyon Lake, Texas we did not know even one percent what we know now about Newman and his age. No one selected our reading materials. One book just led to another.

With our own experience very much in mind, we therefore designed a course that would introduce Newman by beginning with three key works of fiction and poetry. We found in CALLISTA, LOSS AND GAIN and the poem/hymn  “Lead Kindly Light” three lively, easily grasped works which open into all the rest of both Newman and his commentators, no matter how specialized or dry. If we had it do do all over again, Mary and I would first take this Montreat College introductory course and then and only then tackle what all the professors say are Newman’s two indispensable works: the story of his mind in APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA and his theory of education in THE  IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY.
 

--Newman bio 1801--1890
--Newman bio  1801--August 1816
--Joyce Sugg Newman video: First 7 minutes: to Waterloo.
--Q&A

B R E A K

PART TWO: Mary
 

--CALLISTA: A TALE OF THE THIRD CENTURY  (click here for Mary's lecture)

--Q&A

See also two book reviews of Callista by Patrick at http://www.patrickkillough.com/books/newman_callista_review.html

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TPK Swannanoa, NC 10/08/2002